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motor protein
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motor protein,
protein that moves along a surface, propelled by the energy of adenosine triphosphate hydrolysis.


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The team determined that this protein is a specialized form of an omnipresent housekeeping protein called clathrin, which is known to be instrumental in moving proteins between cellular compartments.
A further implication of our discovery is that SCA5 mutations could affect the movement of proteins within the cell by disrupting interactions between [beta]-III spectrin and the "motor complex" responsible for moving proteins from one part of the cell to another.
 
 
 
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